President Donald Trump has brought Ukraine and Russia closer to a peace agreement than at any point since their war began, but NATO must adopt a “wartime mindset” while striving to keep the peace, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said on Newsmax Wednesday.
“President Trump has recently said that we are as close as we’ve ever been to a peace deal,” Whitaker said on Newsmax’s “Newsline.” “I think we just need to let this play out.”
Both sides, he added, are publicly posturing, but “there are great conversations happening” between Kyiv and Moscow.
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